Role Purpose
Own the end-to-end operations and delivery of CORE EHS Animation Services. Drive productivity, quality, and on-time delivery across multiple concurrent projects; lead client engagement; translate requirements into clear technical plans; and continuously improve pipeline, tools, and team capability.
Key Responsibilities
1) Delivery & Operations Management
- Plan, allocate, and track work across
Animation, Modelling, Compositing, VFX
teams; maintain hundred% task visibility
(shot/asset level). - Build and run a
production calendar
(milestones, sprints, cut-offs, approvals, risk buffers). - Ensure
on-time, in-scope, in-quality
delivery with clear change-control for scope/effort shifts. - Monitor render farm/resources; optimize scenes/renders to meet schedules.
2) Productivity & Capacity
- Maintain
utilization targets
; ensure no idle bandwidth through proactive loading and cross-training. - Standardize checklists, naming, handoff formats; reduce rework via gate reviews (block spline polish).
- Weekly
variance analysis
(estimated vs. actual hours); implement corrective actions.
3) Client & Stakeholder Management
- Lead requirement discovery, moodboards, and shot-breakdowns; convert briefs into
SOWs and shot lists
. - Own client communication: reviews, approvals, feedback loops, risk/escalation handling, and satisfaction (CSAT).
- Partner with BD/Presales on
effort estimation, pricing inputs, and proposals
.
4) Technical Direction & QA
- Provide hands-on guidance on
3ds Max
workflows (Biped/Bones), look-dev, lighting, and FX/sim basics. - Set
quality bars
(animation principles, continuity, camera hooks, comp finesse). - Approve key shots, styleframes, and final composites; enforce QC gates and delivery packs.
5) People Leadership
- Build hiring plans; interview, onboard, mentor, and run
skill matrices
and IDPs. - Conduct regular 1:1s, feedback, and performance reviews; reward high performers; address performance gaps.
- Foster a collaborative, deadline-driven culture aligned with CORE EHS values.
6) Process, Pipeline & Tools
- Own the production
pipeline
(DCC > comp > edit > render > delivery) and toolchain. - Implement project tracking (ShotGrid/Jira/Trello), version control, and asset management.
- Drive
continuous improvement
templates, scripts, automations, render optimization.
7) Compliance & Safety Context
- Ensure content accuracy for
industrial safety
narratives; align with SMEs, check technical authenticity. - Protect IP/data, enforce NDA and asset-handling protocols.
Success Metrics (KPIs)
On-time Delivery:
milestones met.Quality (First-Time-Right):
approvals without major rework.Team Utilization:
idle time Monitoring & Advance Management.Rework Rate:
of total effort.Client CSAT/NPS:
repeat business ratio upward trend.Estimate Accuracy (EV):
actuals.People:
Attrition industry avg; ramp time for freshers eight weeks.
Qualifications
- Bachelors/Diploma in Animation/VFX/Fine Arts/Media or equivalent portfolio-proven experience.
- Demonstrated leadership of multi-disciplinary animation teams delivering film/eLearning/tech-viz.
- Industrial/safety/technical visualization background is a strong plus.
Skill Set
Must-Have (Hands-on/Directing):
- Autodesk
3ds Max
(modelling, Biped/Bones animation), scene optimization. - Compositing oversight (
After Effects
/Nuke
basics), edit sense (Premiere). - FX/Simulation familiarity (Particle Flow/tyFlow, cloth/rigid-body) and render know-how (V-Ray/Arnold).
- Shot planning, camera continuity, story beats, and animation principles.
Management & Tools:
- Shot/asset tracking (
ShotGrid/Jira/Trello
), Gantt/sprint planning, risk registers. - Versioning/asset mgmt. (Perforce/Git/LFS or equivalent), render farm supervision.
- Estimation, SOWs, change control, and stakeholder reporting.
Soft Skills:
- Strong client communication, negotiation, and expectation management.
- Analytical problem solving; calm under pressure; coaching mindset.
Ways of Working
On-site
leadership in Surat; occasional travel for client meetings/shoots.- Daily stand-ups, weekly ops reviews, monthly performance dashboards to leadership.
- Clear escalation matrix for blockers (creative, technical, or client-side).
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary with performance bonus; learning budget and certification support.
